CREVASSE Receives Multiple 2024/2025 Scenies!
StageSceneLA celebrates the past year’s (July 2024 to June 2025) outstanding achievements in Southern California theater based on 161 productions reviewed between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. Scenies are presented in the following categories this year: 1. Top Honors 2024-20252. Outstanding Productions3. Outstanding Individual Performances4. Outstanding Ensembles5. Outstanding Direction and Choreography6. Outstanding Design, […]
Reflections on Art and Democracy 2025, a Los Angeles celebration
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kudos to columnist Patt Morrison for her timely reminder that art censorship has long been a tool of authoritarian government (“‘Degenerate’ or ‘woke,’ Paris museum exhibit shows what happens to art in the crosshairs of politics,” May 7). During the American culture wars in 1991, LACMA curator Stephanie Barron organized the first […]
Reflections on Art and Democracy, a Los Angeles celebration
A celebration of plays, salons, lectures, and concerts that promote democratic ideals through reflections on art and democracy. ABOUT Reflections on Art and Democracy is a celebration of plays, salons, lectures, and concerts in Los Angeles aimed at raising awareness about the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism, the power of art and design to resist them, […]
The Hour of All Things
An online film collaboration of The Hour of All Things by Caridad Svich Eight portrayals illuminate a search for collective understanding in an increasingly divisive world. Streaming in November, 2021 LOS ANGELES (October 1, 2021) — Son of Semele Ensemble (SoSE) presents a digital performance of The Hour of All Things written by Caridad Svich. Produced by Matthew McCray and created […]
Farewell, Silver Lake!
For the past 18 years, Son of Semele has operated our very own black box performance space on Beverly Boulevard. It has been my personal delight to have developed the space in 2002 along with the Semele founders and our earliest company members. For nearly two decades we have managed the space and filled a […]
CoLaboratory at Son of Semele present “Sand Moon”
CoLaboratory at Son of Semele has announced the world premiere of Sand Moon, a new drama written and directed by Liz Lanier. Opening is set for Friday, April 19, at 8pm, at Son of Semele Theater in Los Angeles. The engagement will run through April 28 only.The cast will feature (in alphabetical order) James Ferrero, […]
Marion Bridge set for West Coast premiere at Son of Semele
SJB Productions presents the West Coast Premiere of “Marion Bridge” by award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor. The guest production runs September 8 through September 24 for a limited Los Angeles engagement at Son of Semele Theater in Los Angeles. The comedy-drama follows three headstrong sisters who converge on their ancestral home to find they have everything […]
Mike Schlitt and Son of Semele present “Jesus Ride”
Award-winning solo artist Mike Schlitt, in association with Son of Semele, will present Jesus Ride from March 9 through April 8. The production, which garnered “Outstanding Solo Show” at the New York Fringe in 2009, was presented at Son of Semele Theater last year and will return there this spring for a 5-week run that will culminate in […]
LA Weekly: Why Theatre Matters
At The Tip Of The SpearPlayers on the Fringe, Making the Futureby Steven Leigh Morris SON OF SEMELE ENSEMBLE has been around since 2000 — it’s first production premiered in 2001, a play called “Earthlings” by Artistic Director Matthew McCray, a self-described unemployed actor, who assembled his troupe from peers at O.C.’s Chapman University. They’ve […]
Semele on the cover of American Theatre Magazine
Some gulfs are tough to bridge. There are those who like anchovies on their pizzas and those who don’t. There are red states and blue states. There are theatre audiences on the East Coast and those on the West Coast. In the latter case, some mysterious but potent disjunction of taste seems to prevail, frequently sending […]